2011

5/12/2011STScI-2011-142.Galaxy NGC 4214: A Star-Formation Laboratory
The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. Located around 10 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), the galaxy's... (More)

2006

10/12/2006STScI-2006-455.Hubble Captures Galaxy in the Making
Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have provided a dramatic glimpse of a large and massive galaxy under assembly by the merging of smaller, lighter galaxies. Astrophysicists... (More)

4/24/2006STScI-2006-146.Happy Sweet Sixteen, Hubble Telescope!
To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 16 years of success, the two space agencies involved in the project, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), are releasing... (More)

2005

3/3/2005STScI-2005-097.The Impending Destruction of NGC 1427A
What happens when a galaxy falls in with the wrong crowd? The irregular galaxy NGC 1427A is a spectacular example of the resulting stellar rumble. Under the gravitational... (More)

2/3/2004STScI-2004-0610.Supernova Blast Bonanza in Nearby Galaxy
The nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 1569 is a hotbed of vigorous star birth activity which blows huge bubbles that riddle the main body of the galaxy. The galaxy's "star factories"... (More)